increpation

English

Etymology

Latin increpatio.

Noun

increpation (plural increpations)

  1. (obsolete) A rebuke or reproof.
    • 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: [] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, [], →OCLC:
      first the admonitions , fraternal or paternal , of his fellow Christians , or of the governors of the Church , then more public reprehensions and increpations

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